Aubrey Jaffer wrote, regarding CL/PLT #n(0) shorthand:
> What is the utility of an immutable large zero matrix? That shorthand
> could be useful in calls to the ARRAY (or LIST->ARRAY) procedure, but
> for literal arrays it is wasted.
Second thought: The shorthand is also useful with an ARRAY-COPY
procedure (with semantics analogous to STRING-COPY and VECTOR-COPY).
These calls would have the same result:
(make-array #(0) 100 100)
(array-copy #100x100((0))
The second sequence isn't any shorter, but some folks may find it more
intuitive.
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Bradd W. Szonye
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